I have an E5506 with 5.1 root and Innolux and the screen looks a little washed out. Someone facing this same issue? What works for you?
Go to Settings, Display & White Balance.
Red 24
Green 5
Blue 49
Each person will have his own personal preference. However, after spending quite a bit of time tweaking the white balance, my best results were the ones posted above.
White levels are good, blacks and colours all look great. Give the above a try and report back.
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I've seen a lot of youtube videos of the galaxy s II and from what I can tell, the screen is still oversaturated like the original galaxy s, with the same blue tint on white backgrounds. Any chance this would be adjusted, or even have a user-adjustable option, by release? I'm guessing a majority of people outside of forums don't care and prefer the gaudy colors, like how they crank up the color on new TVs and everyone's face looks red, because buyers prefer it. But an option would be much needed for those not so inclined to the heavy colors. Another thing I would want is a lower brightness setting. LCDs get washed out but AMOLEDs can handle lower settings and still have good contrast. With that, the ability to adjust the minimum and maximum threshold for the auto-brightness instead of one predefined setting, as well.
I doubt Samsung (or any other manufacturer) would let you modify that much in the settings. The phone is not a monitor, however I certainly see the possibilty of changing those options (or at least some) once some kind souls will start messing with the firmwares and kernels.
*cough* supercurio voodoo color *cough*
If it involves *cough* hacking *cough* I think I will have to pass. And yes, there are less industrious people around here as well.
i am pretty sure that the sgs 2 will have the same same over saturated colours and the tint(looking at review videos).i am not a fan of amoled i do like its blacks but the over saturation does my headache i prefer ips to amoled any day. if it was not their Soc's i'd never have bought sgs.
Bowsa2511 said:
*cough* supercurio voodoo color *cough*
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This.
Sent from my Captivate.
http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/27/nexus-s-2-3-3-update-adjusts-screens-color-temperature-we-go-e/
Or the Nexus S general forum. Fingers crossed.
A challenging task for the devs here ...........
I only see a blue tint when I tilt the angle of the screen. It doesn't take much to see it and becomes more extreme the more it's tilted. Looking straight on is fine. I didn't expect there to be perfect viewing angles but tilting just a little the blue tint is really prominent. Easily viewed on a pure white screen.
Great phone, though I want to use the device to watch videos and two things bother me: the blue tint when not viewed straight on and the over saturated colours. The colour green is very oversaturated much to the point where I think there's green in the videos showing up that shouldn't be there! I know you can adjust the colour tones, that include warm, cold and natural. If the image looks too yellow/green then the cold setting looks a bit more natural on some videos. I would have preferred a proper configuration for adjusting the complete colour balance.
The screen is wonderful but is let down by these two things. If it's something that can't be helped then that's the way it is, but it would be great to have more control over the colour settings and if the blue tint is really a limitation of the type of screen/glass, or the first batch of phones have an inherent fault with the screen?
On thing that is also off is the gamma curve!
greys become dark too fast, shadow details are crushed, even though the screen has the potential not to do this. On the contrary, with such black levels, the panel should be able to show more shadow details.
I suspect this is a battery saving choice, rather than a screen limitation. I'd rather have an accurate gamma though.
Google will need to allow custom color profiles in Android soon!
My Galaxy S has much more natural colors than the S2 that I just bought. I can't stand the disney colors! Hope some developer will be able to fix that soon!
Is it just me?
How come you guys say that the SGS2 has bluish tint? While when I compare it to my SGS(speedmod) and my friends SGS(voodoo) my SGS2 has a yellowish tint to it? I'm a bit confused. Anyway I've bought it and my only complaint is the sound. Voodoo control plus please!
There is some degree of control (not much though) over the saturation in Settings > Display > Background effect.
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washburn111 said:
How come you guys say that the SGS2 has bluish tint? While when I compare it to my SGS(speedmod) and my friends SGS(voodoo) my SGS2 has a yellowish tint to it? I'm a bit confused. Anyway I've bought it and my only complaint is the sound. Voodoo control plus please!
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The easiest way to see this is to view a white page/screen. Look straight on and then begin tilting the phone in any direction. The blue tint becomes noticeable and more extreme the more you tilt it. I wouldn't have a problem if it was only noticeable at extreme angles, but I do see it if the viewing angle isn't straight on. For phone use this is fine, not so bothered. Not so good when watching media.
Regarding the tint,
Also when i purchased the phone in may the gray was going into pink!
On later updates colors seem better! aswell i rember i posted a request in chainfires 3d drivers tread were i ask the guy kindly to add support for custom rgb mode nightmode tones...
So from his application if u play with nightmode function you can tilt your color as u like!
puremind said:
On thing that is also off is the gamma curve!
greys become dark too fast, shadow details are crushed, even though the screen has the potential not to do this. On the contrary, with such black levels, the panel should be able to show more shadow details.
I suspect this is a battery saving choice, rather than a screen limitation. I'd rather have an accurate gamma though.
Google will need to allow custom color profiles in Android soon!
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There is actually a post/study about this :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1124669
I just got my AT&T Note yesterday and I love the phone. I am VERY unhappy with the color though. The color red doesn't seem red to me. It's got an orange tint to it. For example, we've all see the basic google homepage. The first "o", and the "e" in Google look orangish to me when the should be red.
I have done searching for hours on this topic and the only thing I find relates to grays, and blacks having bars. I don't have that issue. Just that everything seems orangish when it should be red. I have done the secret code that tests hardware and that screen looks red! There is an app that will allow me to tweek the lcd brightness, saturation, and hue. But the phone will have to be rooted, and I prefer not to root if I don't have to.
Anyone else experience weird color issues other than blacks and grays?
Should I go exchange the unit, or root and tweek?
Thanks in advance!
Tj
440bro said:
I just got my AT&T Note yesterday and I love the phone. I am VERY unhappy with the color though. The color red doesn't seem red to me. It's got an orange tint to it. For example, we've all see the basic google homepage. The first "o", and the "e" in Google look orangish to me when the should be red.
I have done searching for hours on this topic and the only thing I find relates to grays, and blacks having bars. I don't have that issue. Just that everything seems orangish when it should be red. I have done the secret code that tests hardware and that screen looks red! There is an app that will allow me to tweek the lcd brightness, saturation, and hue. But the phone will have to be rooted, and I prefer not to root if I don't have to.
Anyone else experience weird color issues other than blacks and grays?
Should I go exchange the unit, or root and tweek?
Thanks in advance!
Tj
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A good way to tell if it's just your phone is to open the Netflix app. I can tell you that looks super red. If yours doesn't I would exchange it.
It's no secret that the white balance of the screen is a but awry on our devices. The image has a bluey-purply tint to it which should be correctable with the white balance settings. I've had a go at this with limited success. Has anyone been able to get something that looks correct?
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It's no secret that the white balance of the screen is a but awry on our devices. The image has a bluey-purply tint to it which should be correctable with the white balance settings. I've had a go at this with limited success. Has anyone been able to get something that looks correct?
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In a dutch review that was published on tweakers.net, the reviewer did the following:
Red to 183, green to 145 and blue to 0 for the best result. The screen is not perfect, but at least it's less blue.
Calibration looks like some sort of screenfilter. Luminosity and contrast suffer.
Luminosity goes from 629 to 450cd/m² and contrast from 930:1 to 650:1
Mine was reddish. So i just pumped up the green a little
ThijsReinders said:
In a dutch review that was published on tweakers.net, the reviewer did the following:
Red to 183, green to 145 and blue to 0 for the best result. The screen is not perfect, but at least it's less blue.
Calibration looks like some sort of screenfilter. Luminosity and contrast suffer.
Luminosity goes from 629 to 450cd/m² and contrast from 930:1 to 650:1
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I find the screen almost dead on white, pretty good really compared to the previous z1 and z3 compact.
Not sure where to ask this, so here goes. Picked up a Z Play for my wife and it's great. Then picked up a Z for myself and while it looks and runs great, there seems to be a definite green tint to the screen when viewed off-center. And I don't mean 30-40 degrees off, but as slight as 5-10 degree off center, in any direction and it has a definite green tint, regardless of brightness setting. Previous AMOLED phones for either of us never had issues until extreme angles, and her Z Play is far better, not turning green til about 40-50 degrees, which is what I would expect.
Is this common or an issue? It's only been a few days, so I can go change it if it's a known issue of any kind. I guess I can also go compare it to display phones.
Mine doesn't appear to have this issue, perhaps a slightly noticeable change when 40° off but not at 5/10.
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Mine doesn't appear to have this issue, perhaps a slightly noticeable change when 40° off but not at 5/10.
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Me neither, nothing remarkable happening when tilting it in either direction.
When the Moto Razr XT910 was new, there were many reports of varying panel quality problems, such as strong green or yellow tints
They did get new phones when they returned them, as it was a quality issue, could be the same thing now.
If I'm not mistaken, those with lots of green had field/cloud faults when viewing a black image in a dark room at full backlight, as they failed to reach zero brightness.
It was described as the pixels leaking electrons to surrounding pixels.
Viewing angles on the Z is worse than my old Moto X 2014 for sure, but it's probably due to the smaller pixels.
Nothing beats the old HTC One M7 though, that thing never faded, but it had an IPS screen.
However, in standard colour mode, it's heavily yellowish to reddish (some would call it warm colour temp)
In dynamic it's closer to white, but with a strong nudge to the blue spectrum.
Can't wait to get the custom colour temperature setting with Android 7.0!
The mk III series was infamous for that.
The screen has a green tint in general, the white balance isn't perfectly D65. I still need to calibrate the white point. But there's no additional tint when I turn the brightness all the way down.
EDIT: After messing with the white balance I can see why they made the factory white balance so green. There is a serious bug and tinting the whole screen green hides the problem. Full thread detailing the problem here.
Not on mine
there's quite a difference between standard mode an creator mode. The former is more "cold" so with lower back light it looks like grey/blue but it is not a tint, just a dim colour
Pixel 4 had the green tint issue. If I recall correctly, it was related to the high refresh rate.
I do. It's super annoying. Aside from generally having a green tint, it's pretty bad at low brightness. It's very distracting
@zpk787 i had the issue, but it seems to have gone away after tweeking the white balance settings.
I have my phone set to standard mode with auto creator mode on for image quality, and then try your white balance to the attached image.
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@zpk787 i had the issue, but it seems to have gone away after tweeking the white balance settings.
I have my phone set to standard mode with auto creator mode on for image quality, and then try your white balance to the attached image.
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That's pretty interesting, thanks. I want to buy the 10 IV - skipped on the 10 III due to the screen issues, but there's nothing better on the market anyway and my current phone is way too old now so I'll just have to deal with it. Zenfone 9 is interesting, but it's gonna suffer from the same battery/heat issues as all sd 8 phones.